TY - BOOK ID - 208207 TI - The Scientist as Philosopher : Philosophical Consequences of Great Scientific Discoveries PY - 2005 SN - 1280262478 9786610262472 3540270310 3540213740 3540205802 PB - Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Discoveries in science. KW - Philosophy and science. KW - Physics KW - Philosophy. KW - Breakthroughs, Scientific KW - Discoveries, Scientific KW - Scientific breakthroughs KW - Scientific discoveries KW - Science and philosophy KW - Physics. KW - Science. KW - Popular works. KW - Physics, general. KW - Science, general. KW - Philosophy, general. KW - Popular Science, general. KW - Science KW - Creative ability in science KW - Research KW - Philosophy (General). KW - Science (General). KW - Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary. KW - Natural philosophy KW - Philosophy, Natural KW - Physical sciences KW - Dynamics KW - Mental philosophy KW - Humanities UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:208207 AB - How do major scientific discoveries reshape their originators’, and our own, sense of reality and concept of the physical world? The Scientist as Philosopher explores the interaction between physics and philosophy. Clearly written and well illustrated, the book first places the scientist-philosophers in the limelight as we learn how their great scientific discoveries forced them to reconsider the time-honored notions with which science had described the natural world. Then, the book explains that what we understand by nature and science have undergone fundamental conceptual changes as a result of the discoveries of electromagnetism, thermodynamics and atomic structure. Even more dramatically, the quantum theory and special theory of relativity questioned traditional assumptions about causation and the passage of time. The author concludes that the dance between science and philosophy is an evolutionary process, which will keep them forever entwined. ER -